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Brits like to complain about the weather. They like talking about anything connected to the weather.

The U.S. hotel industry does the reporters covering it a courtesy of holding several conferences throughout the year, giving us front-row seats into how executives are feeling about the year as it ...

I was not the only one to scoff at the cruel irony that International Women's Day also fell on Daylight Savings this year — a day celebrating women being only 23 hours long is very "75 cents on the ...

As I write my monthly article for CoStar today, I find myself back at the Marriott Griffin Gate Resort, in Lexington, Kentucky. This time as a guest at the place where my hotel career began 45 years ...

Hotel markets are experiencing their most significant supply surge in over two decades. San Diego exemplifies the challenge: the 1,600-room Gaylord Pacific Resort opened in May 2025, with 9 ...

One of the golden rules when I started writing for STR, now part of CoStar, for Hotel News Now, now CoStar News Hotels, was that we’d only write about a hotel transaction, or some similar piece of ...

More and more over the years, I've developed a habit of asking hotel executives how they define lifestyle hotels.

Last week it was an operation to kill a Mexican cartel leader. This week it's a new war targeting Iran with retaliatory action happening across the Middle East and surrounding regions.

This July, Edinburgh’s hotels will start to navigate the city’s bed tax, which will apply to everyone staying in hotels, B&Bs, Airbnbs and hostels. The 5% tax will apply to the first five nights of ...

If you have been reading my columns, you know I am a huge proponent of everything AI. However, as we advance, I find myself increasingly concerned by some of its unintended social implications. ...

The United Kingdom will soon have several tourism or hotel room-night levies.

I swear I'm not a pessimist, at least not most days.

I think of January and February as the warm up of the year — very ironic, since they are usually the coldest months. With March kicking the year into full gear next week, I wanted to take a second to ...

If you want to lose money, open a restaurant. If you really want to lose money, find yourself a celebrity chef to go with it. If you want to be sure that future generations are condemned to penury, ...

If you sit in an owner’s chair or run a portfolio, you probably do not wake up thinking about “marketing innovation” or “AI’s impact revenue."

The United Kingdom's inflation rate increased 3% in January year over year but was down slightly from 3.4% growth in December.

I admit that I'm in the minority as someone who gets vastly more excited about the Winter Olympics than the Summer Olympics.

Those in the field of logistics refer to “the last mile” as the crucial, final leg of the supply chain, where goods are moved to the buyer’s doorstep.

More AI is coming, regardless, apparently, of whether we actually want it.

So much of the world is glued to their televisions — or, more realistically, their phones — watching some of the world's best athletes compete on the snow and ice.